Comments on: Patrick’s Thursday Linkathon of Whateverhttp://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/19/patricks-thursday-linkathon-of-whatever/
It rankles me when somebody tries to tell somebody what to do.Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:59:44 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Leon Wolfesonhttp://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/19/patricks-thursday-linkathon-of-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-3569075
Sat, 21 Jul 2012 04:24:33 +0000http://www.theagitator.com/?p=25595#comment-3569075@24 – British law most certainly does! The definition of Child Pornography you have is nuts, and a good part of the problem. (Of course, I also view our extension of it to pictures without real kids in them equally nuts)
]]>By: Dave Kruegerhttp://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/19/patricks-thursday-linkathon-of-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-3567142
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:26:06 +0000http://www.theagitator.com/?p=25595#comment-3567142My “anybody but Obama pragmatic side tells me to vote for Mitt Romney. My idealistic principled side tells me to vote for Gary Johnson. My principles are winning today.

In any case, I’m pretty sure there is nothing pragmatic about “anyone but Obama”, but it certainly explains the astoundingly lame set of candidates republicans had competing for the nomination.

Basically, you can vote for more bailouts, more war, more military spending, more expansion of government, more domestic surveillance, more expansion of welfare, more government involvement in health care, more innovative drug war tactics, more expansion of the prison population, more lobbying in DC, more expansion of the TSA, more federal debt, etc, etc, etc…

…or you can vote for Johnson.

There has never been a presidential election in the U.S. where it matters less whether you vote for the republican or the democrat. The only good thing about voting democrat or republican is that there will later be no question about whether you deserved what you got.

]]>By: Yizmo Gizmohttp://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/19/patricks-thursday-linkathon-of-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-3567105
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:12:51 +0000http://www.theagitator.com/?p=25595#comment-3567105Is that a doobie Spock is dragging?
]]>By: Dave Kruegerhttp://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/19/patricks-thursday-linkathon-of-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-3567059
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:00:15 +0000http://www.theagitator.com/?p=25595#comment-3567059Raul Hector Castro is a powerful, influential man. He was the governor of Arizona. He was the ambassador to Argentina. None of that means jack squat to the Border Patrol.

Yes, we should stamp out child pornography. It should be illegal to produce movies of child abuse. The laws, however, make no distinction between a guy streaming video of him raping a seven-y-o, and a 16-y-o sending a naked photo to a friend.

The efforts to stamp out CP have resulted in a lot of arrests, a huge increase of guys incarcerated. Very impressive numbers. But the vast majority of those arrests are guys who have done nothing more than look at pictures and videos. Surely, that is a sick habit, an immoral hobby. But should it be a crime to look at pictures?

Oh, you might say, We should prevent the guy looking at pictures from touching children! And I say, When we arrest someone for picking pockets, do we punish him for armed robbery…just in case he might do that some day?

Something tells me that if he was white they’d have been more understanding of him. The fact that he has been detained and questioned three other times, including in his own backyard, should tell you there is something racial going on.

There’s most certainly a scale of harm, and cp falls on the “Yes, it should be banned” side of it (The real stuff, I’d add – when it’s fake/cartoon and no kid’s being hurt it’s simply disgusting, and disgust isn’t sufficient for a ban).

The two she is right on about are Catcher in the Rye and Brave New World.

I read “Catcher” twice and I still don’t know what it is about. I just want to slap Caulfield and say “They flew south for the winter. Now stop whining”. And that was when I was 17.

Brave New World: “This book is about the future. I think the future will all be robotics because that’s what it’s like in cartoons, so the book would be like that.” Add drugs and that is pretty much it.

How is that working out? How did it work out to ban alcohol? How is it working out to ban drugs?

]]>By: K2http://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/19/patricks-thursday-linkathon-of-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-3566432
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:02:32 +0000http://www.theagitator.com/?p=25595#comment-3566432Um, Raul Castro was not detained because he is Latino. He was detained because they detected residual radiation, a claim that is not being contested. The detention is not the problem here, under those circumstances. What IS the problem is the -yet again- lack of common sense exhibited during the detention, namely, an elderly HEART patient in 100 degree heat forced to wait in his car.
]]>By: Fred Mangelshttp://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/19/patricks-thursday-linkathon-of-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-3566361
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:42:43 +0000http://www.theagitator.com/?p=25595#comment-3566361If the Republicans had a half way decent candidate, I might have trouble with the practicality vs. principle thing. As it is, a vote for Gary Johnson seems a no- brainer.
]]>By: Bill Beyerhttp://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/19/patricks-thursday-linkathon-of-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-3565994
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:49:30 +0000http://www.theagitator.com/?p=25595#comment-3565994I’m voting for Gary Johnson… but I live in Washington, where it can’t have any effect on the election, being bluer than blue. If I lived in a swing state I might strategize ‘anyone but Obama’ and vote for Romney, even though he’s really not much better in the issues I care about.
]]>By: John David Galthttp://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/19/patricks-thursday-linkathon-of-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-3564443
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:46:32 +0000http://www.theagitator.com/?p=25595#comment-3564443Re: “You Didn’t Build That!”

Let’s make millions of individualized versions of this sign appear in store windows between now and November.

IT COST ME (x) [YEARS|MONTHS],
(y) NIT-PICKY PERMITS, AND $(z)
BEFORE I COULD EVEN OPEN THIS BUSINESS,
ALL THANKS TO GOVERNMENT “HELP.”
BUT I GOT IT DONE ANYWAY!
THANKS FOR NOTHING, BIG GOVERNMENT!

I release this wording to the public domain, to pre-empt anyone who would claim ownership of it.

]]>By: Arielhttp://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/19/patricks-thursday-linkathon-of-whatever/comment-page-1/#comment-3564310
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:03:37 +0000http://www.theagitator.com/?p=25595#comment-3564310“It looks like a book for kids. I think it’s about a donkey and a pig that do not like each other and they both live on a farm for animals. The same farm. It looks like it would be a funny book with a good really nice ending.”

Which is why children are children, nascent adults perhaps, but still not with opinions we should fawn over.